Next time, don’t use your real name when you spit out guinea fowl.”
An X-user and influencer on TikTok says she was fired shortly after users found a photo of her doing the outstretched arm salute. (Via)
Carly Minnick, the user, announced in a post on Wednesday that she was fired by her employer shortly after being called into an “emergency” meeting.
“My boss told me he needed to speak with me in 15 minutes and that it was an emergency,” she wrote.
“I was fired,” she added.
Minnick, who seems to have changed his X account from @MinnickCarly to @coffeemousee while all this was going on, didn’t initially say what had led to his firing. But a community note and users in his replies were quick to point out that he had made a “Nazi salute” in a post that he has now deleted.
It all kicked off when one account started asking if Minnick, who’s got over 40,000 followers on TikTok, was for real.
Minnick responded by posting a photo of her saying hello. Although the initial gesture brought it to people’s attention, the story went viral when Minnick admitted she’d been fired.
“It was hilarious to hear this story backwards,” commented one user in a post viewed nearly a million times.
Ms. Minnick didn’t say which job she was fired from, but a screenshot of her LinkedIn profile suggests she might’ve worked as an assistant in a daycare.
An X user with the pseudonym “Stressed Potato” even claimed he was the one who contacted Ms. Minnick’s boss. (Via)
“Next time don’t use your real name when you spit the ball,” the user wrote. “It was fun talking to your boss ;)”.
After a short break, Minnick came back to X only to make vague references to the incident.
In one post, he shared a photo of Elon Musk making a similar greeting, with a message saying he was taking responsibility for the billionaire.
That message seems to have been deleted. (Via)
Interestingly, since he seems to have changed his username, the old one, @MinnickCarly, has been sharing an endless stream of Nazi content. It’s not clear if the old username was registered by someone else to spread Nazi propaganda.
“In the last 24 hours, my family and friends have been threatened. People I haven’t spoken to in years are being told they will be killed because they were in a photo with me years ago. I am not afraid of you,” he wrote.
“The internet was created so young and beautiful people could break the rules and create new and interesting things. Let’s make the world beautiful again.
Am I a Nazi? No, lmao. Literally, I’m not a Nazi.I’m a secret fourth thing and we’re gonna take over the world.